The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-12-22
Personal News and Gossip.

Governor Scales has been quite ill
but is improving.
The Grown Prince of Germany Will
probably recover.
Congressman Rowland is very i'll,
and it is thought that he cannot recov-
er.
Frank r. Stockton is fifty three,
but he doesn't look more than thirty
eight.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has
just received a bequest OF $9,000,000
from relative.
Mr.. Jordan Stone, veteran jour
nalist, has retired from the Asheville
Citizen and has gone to Los Angeles,
Cal
They savZebVance started life as
hotel clerk Now he is Senator at
$4,000 . year
john Nest says that anarchy is but
a comparative, net q positive evil.
Indeed it is much more, Most.-Ak-
bang Times
Mr. T. V. Powderly, leader of the
Knights of Labor, has been very i'll
and grave fears are entertained for
his recovery.
Loge Harris has returned from
Washington City, where he has been
spending several days, trying to get
the United States in better running
order.-State Chronicle.
w. B. Edmundson, Esq, a lawyer,
has taken editorial charge of the
Reidsville Times, and G. F. Lewis, the
former editor has become business
manager. Success all around.
Mr.. w. S. Primrose, of Raleigh,
has been elected secretary of the
Southern branch of the joint Presby-
terian committee at Louisville. A
well deserved compliment to a wor-
thy man.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis positively de
clines to permit the collection of a
fund in the South for the benefit of
herself and family. There is evident
ly something about the Davis family
that might be copied with profit fur
| ther North. Independ-
| ent.
Miss Ellen Terry says she prefers
the company of men because they are
the best conversationalists. And yet
we have been told that when mar
ried man goes homes about half past
midnight with chic" in his speech
his wife insists upon doing all the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
| Rev. R. G. Pearson, who is now
preaching at Concord, is native of
Mississippi, and graduateot Col
lege and Theological Seminary, and is
not unlike the late Alexander Steph-
ems, Of Georgia, both in physique and
mental character. Mrs. Pearson, his
accomplished wife accompanies him,
and is a great help in the after meet
ings and in the ladies meetings.
A man said to me the other day"
suppose Donald w. Bain will be re
nominated for State Treasurer" Oh
course, of course. | have travelled
over the State during the last SIX
months from Morehead to Waynes-
vile, and l have neither seen MOI
heard OF any man who Is not enthusi.
astically for Donald Balm. An hon
ester man God never made, and more
efficient and faithful public Officer
; does not live in North Carolina. No
body will run against him. Put tha
down. Also put this down: If any
body docs, that somebody will b'
,, defeated SO easily that ne won't know
where to find hole small enough t.
pull himself into The people recog
{ nizc Mr.. Bain's fitness and his fidelity
. 1 doubt if Zeb Vance coulC beat hin
for Treasurer. That is equivalent t.
saying that he cannot be downed.
> have had the opportunity to know tn
! man well, and to know how he con
ddcts his office, and I know whereof
affirm when [ say that no man any
where would make a better officer
But why speak OF it? Of course h
will be re-nominated and reelecte
: with "whoop. .'-Raleigh Cor. w,
. son Advance.